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Subsidies: Rationales and Trade and Investment Distortions
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Notes
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Subsidies now play a key role in business location decisions, and impact their international competitiveness. Foreign-based corporations may regard these lower prices as unfair competition in international trade. Nevertheless, subsidies are implemented to pursue certain social objectives, and so an intergovernmental pact that limits subsidies may diminish, rather that improve, the well-being of signatories.
Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Author: Jamali, Dima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Partnership for Lebanon (PFL), a major partnering initiative in a post war context, was initiated in September 2006 after President George W. Bush called for the assistance of U.S. companies to help in the relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon after the 2006 war. The five companies involved were Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Ghafari Inc., Occidental Petroleum and Microsoft. They leveraged their core competence under five main work streams namely emergency relief/response, job creation/private sector revival, developing ICT infrastructure, workforce training/education and developing connected communities.
Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Farming in Indonesia
Authors: Alon, Ilan; Misati, Eve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Oded Carmi was a social entrepreneur striving for a “green Bali.” He started Sari Organik as a model farm intended to grow organically with market demands and to benefit the local community while serving as an educational center for small scale farmers in the region. Thirteen years later, the idea was not as well embraced as he had hoped.
Economics and Peace Teaching Materials Portal
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This collection offers resources to help teach business students about peace. We hope this collection grows and encourages further inquiry into the business and peace nexus.
Suncor's Political Role in Fort McMurray
Author: Valente, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In the midst of massive growth in the oil sands, Suncor's chief executive officer (CEO) is growing concerned about the local government's inability to cope with unprecedented growth of oils sands development in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Crime, prostitution, drug use, social inequality and ecological deterioration have begun to cripple the area. The CEO is concerned that inaction may hold Suncor complicit in the social and ecological issues in the region.
A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (A, B)
Authors: Jones, Jamie; Rowland, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents.
2011 Global Peace Index
Author: Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Web Sites
Source: Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
Peace is one of the most used and esteemed words in the human vocabulary. The most peaceful societies have higher per capita income, higher levels of well-being, more freedom, perform better at sustainability, and appear to have a more equitable distribution of social spending. Yet if we wish to create peace then we must first pose the question; "what do we know about peace?” The Institute for Economics and Peace, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit and with the guidance of an international team of academics and peace experts, has compiled the Global Peace Index.
Los Ejidos de El Salto: Biomass Energy and Carbon Offsets in the El Salto Forests
Authors: Eddy, Len; Mendoza, Alvaro; Clemen, Robert T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
Len Eddy, CEO of The Carbon Basis Company had traveled to 20 different countries looking for new forest biomass energy projects. Near the town of El Salto in central Mexico, he found what he was looking for: an active forest industry with exceptional management and the possibility of developing a bioenergy project. The project would see the conversion of forest harvest debris and sawmill residues into renewable energy. In addition, the project offered two possible pathways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by displacing fossil fuel energy sources and/or by allowing forest carbon sequestration.
Admitting Failure
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: AdmittingFailure.com
Publication Year: 2011
This site is an open space for development professionals who recognize that the only “bad” failure is one that’s repeated.
Learning from Failure at TEDx
Author: Damberger, David
Product Type: Multimedia; Speeches
Source: TEDxYYC
Publication Year: 2011
In this talk, David draws on his work experience in Africa to speak about the transformative power of publicly admitting failure in the development aid sector which currently lacks accountability, creativity and transparency.
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